Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...role in the invasion of Iraq, while Leach developed a liberal record on international issues. He was one of only six House Republicans to vote against the 2002 authorization for the use of force in Iraq.Leach described that decision as unpleasant but unambiguous. “It was awkward, but I had no personal choice but to disagree with him on the Iraq war,” Leach said. “I thought there were way too many counterproductive dimensions.” Rumsfeld did not return phone messages left at his Hoover Institution office.In his time in Congress...
...preserve of the few, but now they're massively attended. We had to change to match that." By adding a new entrance for groups and permitting the museum's main doors on the Paseo del Prado to re-open for everyone else, the extension does away with the awkward side entries. The new wing also provides a suitable home for the necessary appurtenances of the modern museum (café, auditorium and gift shop), leaving the original 18th century building by Juan de Villanueva free of everything...
...explains your slightly meandering path home. I promise, once you get to know him, Bennett’s a real...fun-loving guy. So, any thoughts on this scintillating Rockies-Red Sox World Series? “Juiced about the Red Sox!” he shouted with an awkward pump of his fist. “I just knew they were going to pull off this comeback.” You, a Red Sox fan? I refuse to believe it. You’re an all-American, with deep Midwestern roots. “Yeah man, I love...
...President Drew G. Faust’s installation ceremony could not help but chuckle at the aesthetic incoherence of the Brahmin formalities interspersed with multicultural drum and jazz numbers. The attempt to merge harmoniously Harvard tradition and international diversity into a single program, with its discordant rhythms and awkward transitions, certainly fell short of the mark...
...took the bronze in race-walking at the 2000 Olympics and another at the world championships in Osaka this year, hopes the plan is successful. She's never won gold at an international competition, and thus has never had to hum from the podium, but she can imagine how awkward it feels. "I'm Catalan, but I'd have no problem singing a Spanish national anthem," she says. "That would be phenomenal...